Copyright watermark on photos

I just found this:

http://stegart.blogspot.com/2010/06/watermarks-on-photos.html

which explains how to do the above even easier than I've been doing it. This way, the letter size can be adjusted to the size of the individual photo. I've been saving the whole thing as a file and copying and pasting which works, but it's one size and as we all know that does not fit all.
©, BTW, is done by holding down the "alt" key and typing 0169 on the numbers keypad.
My public service announcement for the day ♥

My new favorite bag

Somebody was obviously having too much fun taking self-portraits.
I made this bag a while ago, starting with a pattern I bought on etsy - one of those PDF downloadable files. It looked really cute in the pictures but didn't turn out quite that cute when I was done. Not wanting to waste that fabric, I took the bottom apart and reworked it, adding pleats, and really, really love it. Now it does look cute. It's yet another fairly big bag (I figured out yet again yesterday that I do not do small bags), soft, slouchy, just the way I like them.
I think I'd love it even more if it had an outside pocket, but that'll come with the next incarnation of this bag. Maybe a bottom insert, too. Who knows?
Obviously, the love affair with the pencil skirt continues as well. With the required stomach crunches, not so much.

Golden Gate Bridge event last Sunday

I don't know how to link to a You Tube video so that the actual video shows up here, so you'll just have to make do with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9bKeBCBxKs

Info about it is here on Facebook and I wish I had attended .................

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=134344396576414

I find it very hard to watch the video without tearing up and I'm so bloody stoic that doesn't happen often.

Flea market - or almost wordless Sunday

I did say "almost wordless" - don't you all think the second dress would make a perfect mother-of-the-bride outfit? Somewhere? Maybe not where I'm going :-)

Which one?

Facebook won't let me upload the above pictures - they are either too tall or too skinny. The pictures, not me, mind you.
So, here they go instead - just for a little while.
Why? Because I have a really hard time deciding which dress to keep. I need something for my daughter's wedding in August and couldn't decide and, therefore, ended up with 3 dresses and one little jacket.
The black one isn't in the running for the wedding at all. I just happen to like it a lot, especially with that little jacket on top. But I also realize that I really do not have many opportunities to wear anything like that - if any.
So, it's really between the blue and the orchid one. My daughter likes blue, I've had several votes for orchid and I haven't a clue. DH is no help, as usual where clothes are concerned.
So, which one should I wear?

This morning

I don't think this post really requires any words, the pictures are self-explanatory. Lucky shots - I let the dog out early (as always) and saw cobwebs all over the backyard and the deck, grabbed my camera and snapped away. I noticed that none of them were visible any longer when I checked back 45 minutes or so later - all the dew had evaporated.

Third Annual Bridge Visit

I told somebody recently that we would be on that bridge every year on the anniversary of Henry's death until that suicide barrier is finally constructed.
It almost didn't happen this year: Larry was sick, very sick. We suspected food poisoning at first but, since I came down with it 2 days later, it was obviously a stomach bug.
He thought he could make it, but he just wasn't in any shape to leave the house on Saturday. So, I drove myself. What you have to know here is that I am a very reluctant highway driver - there are certain places I drive myself but mostly because I've gone there so often, it's not a big deal anymore. But I've never driven to the bridge by myself. All went well, though, although I went early hoping to avoid heavy traffic and, therefore, wasn't on the bridge at the right time.
I had to dodge many bicycles on my way out of the parking lot (on Saturdays, the Western walkway is open to bicycles) and many, many more girl scouts on the other side (it's the annual bridging ceremony - from the Wikipedia site: "Most notable is the bridging ceremony held in San Francisco as Juniors bridge to Cadettes over the Golden Gate Bridge. The girls bridging walk across a bridge (sometimes literally or symbolically) to their new level and are greeted with the Girl Scout Handshake.).
I dropped the rose petals I had collected and the forget-me-nots I had grown just for this purpose, took a few pictures (and had a total stranger take a picture of me) and then drove home.
Tonight, we hand out the first scholarship and I'm it - I offered (foolishly) to make the short speech this year and since I made a very miraculous recovery after being sicker than I could remember ever having been before, I will just have to do it. This year, we'll be awarding at 3 schools, next year, only at 2. We are cutting our ties with the school Henry attended for a variety of reasons. Wish me luck!